98-22868 RESO
RESOLUTION NO.
98-22868
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO
EXECUTE AGREEMENTS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) AND EMERGENCY SHELTER
GRANTS (ESG) ACTIVITIES WHICH WERE APPROVED AS PART OF THE ONE
YEAR ACTION PLAN FOR FEDERAL FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998/99 AS
FOLLOWS: NINETEEN (19) COBG SUB-RECIPIENT AGREEMENTS, TWO (2)
CDBG INTERDEPARTMENTAL COOPERATION AGREEMENTS AND THREE (3)
ESG SUB-RECIPIENT AGREEMENTS.
WHEREAS, on July 1, 1998, the Mayor and City Commission adopted Resolution
No. 98-22814 that approved the Five Year Consolidated Plan containing the One Year
Action Plan for FY 1998/99 federal funds, which sets out the budget allocations for the
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program Year 24 and the Emergency
Shelter Grants (ESG) Program projects and activities to be undertaken by sub-recipients
and City of Miami Beach Departments for FY 1998/99; and
WHEREAS, the program year for these grants commences on October 1, 1998 and
continues through September 30, 1999; and
WHEREAS, the City has duly submitted the Five Year Consolidated Plan that
contains the One Year Action Plan for federal funds FY 1998/99, including the budgets for
the CDBG Program Year 24, ESG Program, and the HOME Investment Partnerships
(HOME) Program to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and
has identified $3,640,000 in available CDBG resources for Program Year 24, as follows:
$2,756,000 entitlement funds; $200,000 reprogrammed funds from prior years; and
$684,000 in anticipated program income for Program Year 24 programs; and
WHEREAS, to implement the various projects and programs that were approved
by both the Community Development Advisory Committee (CDAC) and the Mayor and City
Commission, it is necessary to execute the attached Agreements for same; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Commission deem it to be in the best interest of the
residents and citizens of the City to enter into these Agreements with various CDBG and
ESG sub-recipient agencies, as prescribed in the One Year Action Plan for federal funds
for FY 1998/99, as follows:
CDBG-Funded Activities:
1. ASPIRA of Florida, Inc.
Leadership Development/Outreach Program - $30,000
To provide one-on-one counseling and hold club meetings/group activities for
approximately 105 "educationally at-risk" youth for drop-out prevention, youth gang
intervention, and leadership development at Miami Beach High School, Nautilus
Middle School, and the South Beach Club at the South Shore Community Center.
2. Barry University Academy for Better Communities
Miami Beach Feeder Pattern (Biscayne, Nautilus Middle, Miami Beach Senior
High) - $15,000
To provide group, individual, and family counseling to approximately 140 children
and their families from Biscayne Elementary School, Nautilus Middle School and
Miami Beach Senior High.
3. Boys & Girls Clubs Of Miami, Inc.
Juvenile Program - $48,000
To provide a no-fee after-school program to approximately 350 youth ranging in
ages from 5 to 15 at Fienberg/Fisher Elementary School and the Flamingo Park
Teen Center.
4. City of Miami Beach (CMB)--Fire Department
Fire Department - Fire Station #4 Rehabilitation - $221,200
To provide facility renovations, asbestos abatement, and handicapped accessibility.
5. CMB--Community/Economic Development Department
Miami Beach Multi-family Housing Rehabilitation Program - $150,000
To provide decent, safe and sanitary housing through matching grants or other
financial inducements to rehabilitate multi-unit buildings, upgrade the existing
housing stock, and provide affordable housing opportunities. This program also
receives $300,000 from the City's HOME allocation.
6. Community Council for the Jewish Elderly
Miami Beach Senior CenterlWorking Together - $30,000
To provide adult day care to 21 unduplicated frail elderly clients, and housing
relocation assistance to approximately 40 income-eligible senior adults over the age
of60.
7. Douglas Gardens Community Mental Health Center of Miami Beach, Inc.
(OGCMC)
Mayfair Cafe - $40,000
Start-up costs for a tenant-operated cafe that will provide training jobs for formerly
homeless and disabled persons and provide meals to tenants of housing on site.
8. FienberglFisher Community Education Center
Child Care and Vocational Scholarships - $23,000
This funding will provide approximately 300 income- eligible Miami Beach residents
with fee/tuition scholarships for vocational training, and will provide approximately
24 child-care scholarships for parents who are receiving vocational training.
9. Food For Life Network
Home Delivered Meals for People with HIVIAIDS - $50,000
To provide meals to approximately 60 income-eligible homebound AIDS patients in
Miami Beach, delivered weekly to the clients' homes.
10. Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence (HOPE), Inc.
Fair Housing Education Program - $7,500 (plus $7,500 of HOME funds)
To provide a Fair Housing Education Program which will include fair housing
education and outreach workshops/seminars/presentations to housing providers
and groups involved in housing and related issues.
11. Jewish Vocational Services
Senior Meals on Wheels Program- $15,000
To partially fund two drivers to deliver 17,640 meals per month to approximately 900
homebound elderly participants residing in eligible Community Development target
areas.
12. Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Centers (LHANC)
Total funding is $103,500
Miami Beach Elderly Meals Program - $55,000
To provide hot meals to approximately 800 Miami Beach elderly clients at two
congregate meal sites: 533 Collins Avenue and 8638 Harding Avenue.
Rainbow Intergenerational Day Care - Miami Beach - $48,500
To provide preschool day care for approximately 25 subsidized income-eligible
Miami Beach children with fee waivers/scholarships. Miami Beach senior citizens
will be trained to be day care workers.
13. Log Cabin Enterprises, Inc.
Log Cabin Plant Nursery - $87,850
To provide funding for a nursery business program that creates and/or retains jobs
for approximately 51 developmentally disabled adults at a facility located at 8128
Collins Avenue. In addition, this activity will retain approximately $130,000 in
anticipated program income.
14. Miami Beach Community Development Corporation (MBCDC)
Total funding is $860,000
MBCDC - RAIN Emergency Assistance Program - $30,000
In partnership with RAIN Mothers of Fienberg/Fisher School, to provide emergency
food, medical assistance, housing assistance and child care for 86 income eligible
families.
MBCDC - Preservation and Rehabilitation - $220,000
Grants for facade improvements and the rehabilitation of property owned by
businesses and non-profit organizations, including particularly the Seymour Hotel
to provide a community center, and first floor commercial space.
MBCDC - Home Ownership Program - Acquisition - $80,000
To provide home ownership opportunities to approximately 21 eligible first-time
homebuyers in Miami Beach. In addition, MBCDC will retain another $100,000 in
program income for this previously-funded activity.
MBCDC - Home Ownership Program - Disposition - $80,000
To provide home ownership opportunities to approximately 21 eligible first-time
homebuyers in Miami Beach. In addition, MBCDC will retain another $100,000 in
program income for this previously-funded activity.
MBCDC - Home Ownership Program - Housing Counseling - $40,000
To provide housing counseling to a minimum of 40 participants in the HOME-funded
homebuyer program.
MBCDC - Multi-family Housing Program - $125,000
To provide operational funds to enable MBCDC to continue its rehabilitation and
property management activities.
MBCDC - South Beach Residential Neighborhood Public Space
Improvements - $285,000
To provide street and public space improvements in the low and moderate income
areas of South Beach. Project will include: landscaping, traffic and pedestrian
improvement, bicycle pathways, and sidewalks, public spaces, and Flamingo Park
improvements
15. Miami Beach Police Athletic League (PAL)
PAL Juvenile Center - $25,000
To purchase fitness equipment for the newly renovated portion of the facility. The
facility primarily serves youth from the Flamingo Community Development target
area which is 73% low/moderate income.
16. Miami Beach Senior High School
Operation Safety Net - $9,500
To provide temporary assistance to approximately 18 low and moderate income
families whose children attend Miami Beach Senior High School. Provision of
emergency vouchers for rent, utilities, or food.
17. North Beach Development Corporation (NBDC)
Total Funding is $324,548
NBDC - North Beach Facade Renovation Program - $124,548
To provide direct grants to commercial property owners and businesses for eligible
facade improvements, exterior renovations, and the correction of interior code
violations in the northern Community Development target areas.
NBDC - North Beach Streetscape - $200,000
To work with the CMB Public Works Department to prioritize needed street
improvements, initiate and develop plans, and pay the costs of the first project.
18. South Beach AIDS Project
South Beach AIDS Project - $15,000
Provide up-to-date HIV/AIDS information about HIV prevention, use of services,
medical treatment and re-entering the work force.
19. South Florida Art Center, Inc.
Operations and Management - $150,000
To provide affordable subsidized studio, teaching and showroom space to 100
income eligible artists, at 924 Lincoln Road. In addition, this activity will retain
approximately $350,000 in anticipated program income.
20. Stanley C. Myers Community Health Center
Total funding is $47,000
Pharmacy Program - $28,500
To provide prescription medications for 3,670 income-eligible patients using the
facility located at 710 Alton Road.
Children of the World School-Based Health - $18,500
Health care services to children at Fienberg/Fisher Elementary School.
21. UNIDAD of Miami Beach, Inc.
Total funding $123,402
Miami Beach Hispanic Community CenterlCoral Rock House Rehabilitation -
$110,402
To complete the final phase of renovation of the coral rock facility located at 1701
Normandy Drive for use as the Miami Beach Hispanic Community Center (MBHCC)
which will provide social services to income eligible residents.
Project Link -Information and Referral Service Program Miami Beach Hispanic
Community Center - $13,000
To provide information and referral services, employment activities and bilingual
assistance to approximately 2000 income eligible Miami Beach residents at the
MBHCC.
ESG Funded Activities:
1. BETTER WAY OF MIAMI, INC.
Emergency Shelter and Intervention Services for Miami Beach Clients -
$35,000
To provide transitional housing (shelter beds), nutritional services, transportation,
clothing assistance, self-managed domestic and personal services for
approximately 80 adult homeless men with alcohol and/or substance abuse
addiction at the Better Way facility located at 800 NW 28th Street.
2. DGCMC
Outreach and Placement Services for Miami Beach Clients - $55,600
To provide mobile outreach services (intake, assessment & referral) to at least 130
people in a three month period and place at least 25 homeless persons into housing
(as available).
3. MBCDC
RAIN Emergency FoodlMedicallHousinglChild Care - $12,000
To provide emergency housing assistance to Miami Beach families facing eviction.
(collectively, the Agreements); and
WHEREAS, the CDBG funds are conditional upon the approval for release of funds
from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that the Mayor and City Clerk
are hereby authorized and directed to execute nineteen (19) CDBG sub-recipient
Agreements, two (2) CDBG interdepartmental cooperation Agreements and three (3) ESG
sub-recipient Agreements necessary to implement the CDBG and (3) ESG activities which
were approved as part of the One Year Action Plan for federal funds for fiscal year
1998/99.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 9th day of September, 1998.
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~ITY OF MIAMI BEACH
COMMISSION MEMORANDUM NO. 55'A, -1 ~
TO:
Mayor Neisen O. Kasdin and
Members of the City Co mission
DATE: September 9, 1998
FROM: Sergio Rodriguez
City Manager
SUBJECT: A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND
CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE AGREEMENTS NECESSARY TO
IMPLEMENT THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
(CDBG) AND EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANTS (ESG) ACTIVITIES
WHICH WERE APPROVED AS PART OF THE ONE YEAR ACTION PLAN
FOR FEDERAL FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998/99 AS FOLLOWS:
NINETEEN (19) CDBG SUB-RECIPIENT AGREEMENTS, TWO (2) CDBG
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COOPERATION AGREEMENTS AND THREE
(3) ESG SUB-RECIPIENT AGREEMENTS.
ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDATION
Adopt the Resolution.
BACKGROUND
On July I, 1998, the City Commission adopted Resolution #98-22814 approving a Five Year
Consolidated Plan which contains the One Year Action Plan for 1998/99 Federal Funds, including
the FY 1998/99 budget allocations for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program
Year 24 and the Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG) Program projects and activities. The program year
for these grants commences on October I, 1998, and continues through September 30, 1999.
In order to implement the various projects and programs which were approved by both the
Community Development Advisory Committee (CDAC) and the City Commission, it is necessary
to prepare and execute contractual agreements for such. This is a standard administrative procedure
to implement the CDBG and ESG activities approved by the City Commission On July I, 1998.
AGENDA ITEM
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ANALYSIS
The City receives and executes the Fiscal Year 1998/99 "Grant AgreementlFunding Approval Form"
from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the period covering
October I, 1998 through September 30, 1999, and HUD then increases the City's "Letter of Credit"
by the respective amounts. The City then presents sub-recipient agreements to the City Commission
for approval which are contingent upon the receipt of these federal funds.
CONCLUSION
The Administration recommends that the Mayor and City Commission approve the attached
resolution and three (3) boiler-plate form agreements necessary to implement the nineteen (19)
CDBG sub-recipient agreements, two (2) interdepartmental cooperation agreements and three (3)
ESG sub-recipient agreements for the CDBG and ESG activities which were approved on July I,
1998, via resolution #98-22814 as part of the Five Year Consolidated Plan which contains the One
Year Action Plan for Federal Funds for Fiscal Year 1998/99. It is essential that the resolution and
the boiler-plate form agreements be approved at this Commission meeting to maintain the existing
level of service and implement the new activities effective October 1, 1998.
A synopsis of the CDBG and ESG contractual agreements is attached. It provides additional specific
detail on each of the projects or activities that was approved by the City Commission on July 1,
1998. Copies of the CDBG and ESG Form Agreements are also attached.
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SYNOPSIS OF SUB-RECIPIENT AGREEMENTS
CDBG Funded Activities. Nineteen (19) Sub-recipient Agreements and Two (2)
Interdepartmental Cooperation Agreements as follows:
1. ASPIRA of Florida, Inc.
Leadership Development/Outreach Program - $30,000
To provide one-on-one counseling and hold club meetings/group activities for approximately
105 "educationally at-risk" youth for drop-out prevention, youth gang intervention, and
leadership development at Miami Beach High School, Nautilus Middle School, and the
South Beach Club at the South Shore Community Center.
2. Barry University Academy for Better Communities
Miami Beach Feeder Pattern (Biscayne, Nautilus Middle, Miami Beach Senior High) -
$15,000
To provide group, individual, and family counseling to approximately 140 children and their
families from Biscayne Elementary School, Nautilus Middle School and Miami Beach
Senior High.
3. Boys & Girls Clubs Of Miami, Inc.
Juvenile Program - $48,000
To provide a no-fee after-school program to approximately 350 youth ranging in ages from
5 to 15 at Fienberg/Fisher Elementary School and the Flamingo Park Teen Center.
4. City of Miami Beach (CMB)--Fire Department
Fire Department - Fire Station #4 Rehabilitation - $221,200
To provide facility renovations, asbestos abatement, and handicapped accessibility.
5. CMB--Community/Economic Development Department
Miami Beach Multi-family Housing Rehabilitation Program - $150,000
To provide decent, safe and sanitary housing through matching grants or other financial
inducements to rehabilitate multi-unit buildings, upgrade the existing housing stock, and
provide affordable housing opportunities. This program also receives $300,000 from the
City's HOME allocation.
6. Community Council for the Jewish Elderly
Miami Beach Senior Center/Working Together - $30,000
To provide adult day care to 21 unduplicated frail elderly clients, and housing relocation
assistance to approximately 40 income-eligible senior adults over the age of 60.
7. Douglas Gardens Community Mental Health Center of Miami Beach, Inc. (DGCMC)
Mayfair Cafe - $40,000
Start-up costs for a tenant-operated cafe that will provide training jobs for formerly homeless
and disabled persons and provide meals to tenants of housing on site.
8. Fienberg/Fisher Community Education Center
Child Care and Vocational Scholarships - $23,000
This funding will provide approximately 300 income- eligible Miami Beach residents with
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fee/tuition scholarships for vocational training, and will provide approximately 24 child-care
scholarships for parents who are receiving vocational training.
9. Food For Life Network
Home Delivered Meals for People with HIV/AIDS - $50,000
To provide meals to approximately 60 income-eligible homebound AIDS patients in Miami
Beach, delivered weekly to the clients' homes.
10. Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence (HOPE), Inc.
Fair Housing Education Program - $7,500 (plus $7,500 of HOME funds)
To provide a Fair Housing Education Program which will include fair housing education and
outreach workshops/seminars/presentations to housing providers and groups involved in
housing and related issues.
11. Jewish Vocational Services
Senior Meals on Wheels Program- $15,000
To partially fund two drivers to deliver 17,640 meals per month to approximately 900
homebound elderly participants residing in eligible Community Development target areas.
12. Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Centers (LHANC)
Total funding is $103,500
Miami Beach Elderly Meals Program - $55,000
To provide hot meals to approximately 800 Miami Beach elderly clients at two congregate
meal sites: 533 Collins Avenue and 8638 Harding Avenue.
Rainbow Intergenerational Day Care - Miami Beach - $48,500
To provide preschool day care for approximately 25 subsidized income-eligible Miami
Beach children with fee waivers/scholarships. Miami Beach senior citizens will be trained
to be day care workers.
13. Log Cabin Enterprises, Inc.
Log Cabin Plant Nursery - $87,850
To provide funding for a nursery business program that creates and/or retains jobs for
approximately 51 developmentally disabled adults at a facility located at 8128 Collins
A venue. In addition, this activity will retain approximately $130,000 in anticipated program
lllcome.
14. Miami Beach Community Development Corporation (MBCDC)
Total funding is $860,000
MBCDC - RAIN Emergency Assistance Program - $30,000
In partnership with RAIN Mothers of Fienberg/Fisher School, to provide emergency food,
medical assistance, housing assistance and child care for 86 income eligible families.
MBCDC - Preservation and Rehabilitation - $220,000
Grants for facade improvements and the rehabilitation of property owned by businesses and
non-profit organizations, including particularly the Seymour Hotel to provide a community
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center, and first floor commercial space.
MBCDC - Home Ownership Program - Acquisition - $80,000
To provide home ownership opportunities to approximately 21 eligible first-time
homebuyers in Miami Beach. In addition, MBCDC will retain another $100,000 in program
income for this previously-funded activity.
MBCDC - Home Ownership Program - Disposition - $80,000
To provide home ownership opportunities to approximately 21 eligible first-time
homebuyers in Miami Beach. In addition, MBCDC will retain another $100,000 in program
income for this previously-funded activity.
MBCDC - Multi-family Housing Program - $125,000
To provide operational funds to enable MBCDC to continue its rehabilitation and property
management activities.
MBCDC - Home Ownership Program - Housing Counseling - $40,000
To provide housing counseling to a minimum of 40 participants in the HOME-funded
home buyer program.
MBCDC - South Beach Residential Neighborhood Public Space
Improvements - $285,000
To provide street and public space improvements in the low and moderate income areas of
South Beach. Project will include: landscaping, traffic and pedestrian improvement, bicycle
pathways, and sidewalks, public spaces, and Flamingo Park improvements
15. Miami Beach Police Athletic League (PAL)
PAL Juvenile Center - $25,000 '
To purchase fitness equipment for the newly renovated portion of the facility. The facility
primarily serves youth from the Flamingo Community Development target area which is
73% low/moderate income.
16. Miami Beach Senior High School
Operation Safety Net - $9,500
To provide temporary assistance to approximately 18 low and moderate income families
whose children attend Miami Beach Senior High School. Provision of emergency vouchers
for rent, utilities, or food.
17. North Beach Development Corporation (NBDC)
Total Funding is $324,548
NBDC - North Beach Facade Renovation Program - $124,548
To provide direct grants to commercial property owners and businesses for eligible facade
improvements, exterior renovations, and the correction of interior code violations in the
northern Community Development target areas.
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NBDC - North Beach Streetscape - $200,000
To work with the CMB Public Works Department to prioritize needed street improvements,
initiate and develop plans, and pay the costs of the first project.
18. South Beach AIDS Project
South Beach AIDS Project - $15,000
Provide up-to-date HIV / AIDS information about HIV prevention, use of services, medical
treatment and re-entering the work force.
19. South Florida Art Center, Inc.
Operations and Management - $150,000
To provide affordable subsidized studio, teaching and showroom space to 100 income
eligible artists, at 924 Lincoln Road. In addition, this activity will retain approximately
$350,000 in anticipated program income.
20. Stanley C. Myers Community Health Center
Total funding is $47,000
Pharmacy Program - $28,500
To provide prescription medications for 3,670 income-eligible patients using the facility
located at 710 Alton Road.
Children of the World School-Based Health - $18,500
Health care services to children at Fienberg/Fisher Elementary School.
21. UNIDAD of Miami Beach, Inc.
Total funding $123,402
Miami Beach Hispanic Community Center/Coral Rock House Rehabilitation -$110,402
To complete the final phase of renovation of the coral rock facility located at 170 I
Normandy Drive for use as the Miami Beach Hispanic Community Center (MBHCC) which
will provide social services to income eligible residents.
Project Link - Information and Referral Service Program Miami Beach Hispanic
Community Center - $13,000
To provide information and referral services, employment activities and bilingual assistance
to approximately 2000 income eligible Miami Beach residents at the MBHCC.
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ESG Funded Activities - Three (3) Sub-Recipients Agreement as follows:
1. BETTER WAY OF MIAMI, INC.
Emergency Shelter and Intervention Services for Miami Beach Clients - $35,000
To provide transitional housing (shelter beds), nutritional services. transportation, clothing
assistance, self-managed domestic and personal services for approximately 80 adult homeless
men with alcohol and/or substance abuse addiction at the Better Way facility located at 800
NW 28th Street.
2. DGCMC
Outreach and Placement Services for Miami Beach Clients - $55,600
To provide mobile outreach services (intake, assessment & referral) to at least 130 people
in a three month period and place at least 25 homeless persons into housing (as available).
3. MBCDC
RAIN Emergency Food/Medical/HousinglChild Care - $12,000
To provide emergency housing assistance to Miami Beach families facing eviction.